❗️✈️ Iran is reportedly preparing to strike US bases in the Middle East. Qatar has closed its airspace "until further notice," according to the country's Foreign Ministry.

⚡️ WAR IN UKRAINE & RUSSIA — JUN 23, 2025

■ Drop in combat engagements & casualties below the 7-day average
■ Equipment losses remain well above average; significant artillery losses
■ Officer deaths: +52 (5.3 per day since start)
■ Increased 🇷🇺 strikes & relatively few 🇺🇦 strikes

📈 See dashboard for full data:
https://lookerstudio.google.com/s/hsLiLF9YHts

⛔️🇮🇷Who Comes After Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei And Will They Be More Extreme? Iran's Leadership Explained (more) http://www.rferl.org/a/33452450.html #Ukraine #Mastodon #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset

Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East

#MiddleEastChaos #IranNuclearProgram #NoToNuclearWeapons #IranNuclearStrikes #USIsraelConflict

http://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/23/israel_us_iran

What Are #Iran’s worst case scenario options?

1) Bombard every #US base in Saudi/Iraq/Qatar/Bahrain with Short ranged #ballisticmissiles to kill whomever they can.

2) Mine the #StraitOfHormuz. Declare a shipping embargo until the US is economically broken & a pariah for the attack. That won’t be hard.

'Far too much garbage': Musk hits out at his own creation for embarrassing him

#OrwellianNightmare #XPlatform #LeftWingExtremism #AIChatbot #RightWingViolence

https://www.rawstory.com/musk-grok/

Trump used Steve Bannon lunch and 'two weeks' statement as distractions ahead of Iran bombings: report

#DistractionTactic #PoliticalStrategy #PopulistFirebrand #TwoWeeksStatement #IranBombings

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-distraction-steve-bannon-b2775203.html

Well, that went sideways fast. My plan for the day was to get started early, and get my work done before it got hot. I was ready to leave, and went out to water the plants first. The sun hurts my skin. It's hard to breathe out there. At 7:30 in the morning. Guess I'm not getting paid today.
#Heatwave

My mental health demanded that I bake the bread proofing in my fridge despite the heat. Having good bread and butter on a Monday seems worth it though 😅.

#baking #bread #sourdough

With a 11am humidex of 44.7, today is #Ottawa's muggiest day in almost 6 years, since Jul 20th, 2019. #YowWx #OttWeather

The big problem with religion-based states, besides being based on mythology, is that they are never run by religious moderates, always by extremists.

As an archivist one of the things that pisses me off is GOG claiming they're "preserving" games.
They're not, they're just selling a commercial product, and they don't even do any real work - they just slam it into DOSBox, an open source program that GOG does not make any donations towards despite making money off of it.
That's not preservation. Don't let them fool you into thinking there's any kind of charity going on here.
They even ask for DONATIONS now.
https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program

Accurate.

@JPK_elmediat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gaertner

A german soldier who walked out of a POW camp and disappeared into America for decades.

I think maybe at retirement age his wife asked him, "Why haven't you filed to get your Social Security already?"

Also some point he was jogging near Cabrillo College in Aptos California, and some fellow WW2 German soldier recognised him, " OMG! Is that Georg? Weren't you serving in North Africa with me?"

Hey, Mastodon. Are there any folks out there that have recently moved from the USA to #Canada with a permanent residency visa?

What immigration service did you use? What were your thoughts on it?

What moving service did you use? How did that work?

Any tips? Pitfalls to avoid?

Boosts appreciated.

Edit: I’m looking specifically for recommended immigration attorneys, movers, etc. (by name).

Warning, nerdy #tech + #linux post. I set up a Plex server a while back to stream movies etc. when too lazy to put in a DVD. I got choppy video, which I thought was maybe related to only 8GB RAM. I bought an extra DDR3 chip and upped to 16GB RAM. Still got choppy video; I attributed it to the slower HDD I'm using, and perhaps the files were too big - MKV instead of MP4. Hmm, still not quite. But the final straw was Plex not recognizing a TV series I downloaded from Archive.org: "The Loner", a western from Rod Serling starring Lloyd Bridges.

I turned to Jellyfin, and everything works great. The streaming is not choppy at all! Perhaps the answer is...Plex is too bloated (which it is - I don't need it to give me video channels I have access to elsewhere). So...now I need to re-rip the DVDs I already uploaded back to MKV. Thankfully I haven't done that many so far. Bye bye, Plex!

Science fiction has always given us both hope and dire warnings about what could be.

here's today's post: "this is going to be the stupidest war ever" — elect clowns, get a three-ring armed conflict.
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It seems the White House bombs first, justifies later. The narrative it hoped to spin—that the attack was successful and critical to stop Iran from producing a bomb—is falling apart, even while Trump’s goals are shifting. My write-up in today’s piece, link in the replies.

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/their-iran-narrative-is-unraveling?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false